Corn planter



Jan. 8 1924- 4 H. N. NAUGLE CORN PLAN'IER FiledADril 27. 1922 I 57 asPatented Jan; 8,1924.

UNITED STATES TO DAVID It. WISHAR-D AND ONE-THIRD TO WAYNESBORO,PENNSYLVANIA.

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Application filed. April 27,1922. SeriaLNo. 556,978.

To aZZ whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOWARD N. NAUGLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at lVaynesboro, in the county of Franklin and State ofPennsylvania, have invented cei' tain new and useful Improvements inCorn use of the ordinary check row wire is dispcnsed with. 7

Another object of the invention is to provide marking means forindicating the position of the hills transversely of thefield.

Still another object is to provide 1'eset ting means for adjusting thetripping mechanism to trip the seed dropping means at the proper time,should this be out of adjustment as frequentl ing a turn at the end ofthe field.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof andon which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, t

Figure 1 is a plan of the corn planter with my improvement thereon,

In the drawings reference character 10 indicates a U-shaped main framesupported on an axle 11 carried by a pair of wheels 12.

At its forward end the Ufra1ne carries an auxiliary frame comprising apair of transverse members 13 to which the shoes 1 are secured as wellas various other conventional elements of the mechanism such as seedboxes 15. A shaft 16 extends transversely of the machine and this shafthas a pin 17 thereon which at each rotation of the shaft is adapted tostrike a rounded part 18 on a member 19 (Figures 3 and 4:) pivoted onthe forward member 13. The member 18 has at one end a reduced portion 20on which is fixed a laterally projecting pin 21 and this pin at eachoscillation trips the dropping mechanism which is of ordinary type.Spring 22 serves to return the mem ber 19 to upper position.

The shaft 16 also is connected by a sprocket 23 to a shaft 24 forstirring up and y happens in mak- V lever serving to turn the shaft 16by its Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same,

Figures 3 and 4 detail views of the tripportioning out the grain in theseedboxes; -A beveled gear 25 on shaft 17 drives an other bevel gear(not'shown) for moving the hand 26 of anindicating device 27, the faceof which bears a number of graduations equal to the distance in inchesbetween two successive hills'of corn. Adjacent the indicato'ris a doubleended clutch sleeve 28 loose on the shaft and adapted to engage eitherone of two clutch members 29 and 30 keyed tothe shaft for driving thesame. A bent lever 31 pivoted at'32 engages a groove in the sleeve toshift the clutch, the bent lever being connected at one end to handlever '33 pivoted at 34, the connection being i 'such'that' movement ofthe lever 33 lengthwise of the machine causes transverse movement of thelever 31 to actuate the clutch member. Beyond the double clutch is aratchet 35 alsofixed'to'theshaf-t and a pawl V V carrying lever 36pivoted on the shaft, the

pawl and ratchet connection; At the outer ends of shaft 16 there areapair of arms 37adaptedto engage withPbentend por-l tions of rods 38 projecting'throughbearings 39. At their lower ends these rods are connectedto fiat tie rods or members 40 which may be fixed at the upper end butwhich are preferably pivoted at Llj-and normally forced downward bymeans of springs 42 the auxiliary frame and at the other .end tobrackets 44 fixed to rods 38. By this construction the springs 42normally force the parts 38 and 40 down carrying with them shoes 45whiimay be in the form of shovels or scrapers of any desired type andwhich as will be understood from the drawing and description normallyengage the ground at the sides of the planter and form parallel furrowsbetween the rows. As the shaft 16 rotates the arm '37 will lift themarkers 'each time a hill is planted so that MAUBIC EVHARBAUGH, BOTH OFI c5 attached at one end to brackets 43 fixed'on clutch 28 should bedisconnected and the,

ratchet lever d6 actuated to turn the shaft 16 until the correct numberappears on the dial after which the clutch is thrown in and the machineis ready for operation.

Owingto a variety of causes it may happen that the. mechanism gets outof line in traveling across the field or a slight deviation from theaccuracy may not be noted until a. row has been started. In such a casethe operator by a quick manipulation of the lever 33 then suddenlydisengage the clutch member 28 from one of clutch members 29 and SO andslide it over into engagement with the other th reby permitting a slightchange of relation between the tripping mechanism and the previouslyplanted transverse rows. Minor conditions of transverse alinement of thehills may thus be corrected by moving the clutch member 28 back andforth once or twice without stopping the machine the advantage of whichis apparent.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that the machine of myinvention may be modified in various ways without" departing from thespiriitbt the insention, the true scope or which is set forth in theappended claim.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as'new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

in a wheel-supported corn planter having a pair of seed boxes and meansfor dropping predetermined amounts of seeds therefrom, a transverseshaft adjacent said seed boxes and driven from the supporting wheels ofthe machine, means on the shaft for operating the dropping mechanism,marking shoes normally contacting with the ground, a tie memberassociated with each of said shoes, each member being pivoted to theframe and extending downwardlyfor connection with each shoe, avertically re cipnocable rod fastened toeach shoe and eX- tendingthrough a bearing in the frame each. rod having a bent over upper end,arms mounted on the shaft adapted to contact with the bent over ends ofthe rods to reciprocate the rods to more the shoes, and springs securedto the frame and adapted to return the shoe-s to theirnormal positionadjacent the ground, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof, I havehereunto set my hand and seal at WVaynesboro,Pennsylvania, this twenty-fifthday of April, A.- D nineteen hundred andtwenty-twos HOWARD NAUGLE. [1.- 5.]v

\Vitnesses ALF. N. Rossetti, C. H. STITELY.

Certificate of Correction.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 1,480,459, grantedJanuary 8, 1924,

" upon the application of Howard N. Naugle, of Vaynesboro, Pennsylvania,for

an improvement in Corn Planters, were erroneously issued to theinventor, said Naugle, and one-fourth to David R. Wishard and one-thirdto Maurice Harbaugh, both of \Vaynesboro, Pennsylvania, whereas saidLetters Patent should have been issued to the in'ventor, said Na-ugle,one-third to David R. lVz'sharcZ, and one-third to Maurice H ambau-gh,both of W 'ag nesboro, Pennsylvania, as shown by the records ofassignments in this office; and that the said Letters Patent should beread with this correction therein that the same may conform to therecord of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this i2th day of February, A. D., 1924.

SEAL KARL FENNING,

Andng Gammissz'oner of Patents.

